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Root LCD Density Changer

i'll let you know.

Im running Fresh rom with netarchy kernal and juice defender. Charging phone now.
 
since last post, texting my wife a few texts and showing the coworker how LCD density worked im at 95%.
 
I didn't notice any changes in how movies looked but it does fit more info on the screen which is cool. I looked at my Evo next to my wife's stock Evo and I like mine better now with it set at 200.
 
Seems like the dev took down the links to the free download. Anyhow, this is just a properties setting that you can change yourself if you're rooted and know a bit of adb shell and unix.

The file you need to edit is build.prop located in /system

The relevant part of the file looks like this:

# density in DPI of the LCD of this board. This is used to scale the UI
# appropriately. If this property is not defined, the default value is 160 dpi.
ro.sf.lcd_density = 240
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Change that number and reboot. Course, you'll need to know how to use adb shell and the vi text editor :)
 
Found this download link: LCD Density Changer 3.0.apk

Just did a nandroid backup and installed the apk.

Lowered it to 200. Not sure how I feel about it, there is so much empty space and it's not like I can put anything there. I'll try it out for a day or two and see how I feel about it then.

The default is 240 right?
 
yeah 240 is stock i am running fresh 3.1.0.2 and set to 200 there is alot of empty space also the 3 buttons on the bottom now have gaps it doesn't look good at all
 
Jack Daniels said:
yeah 240 is stock i am running fresh 3.1.0.2 and set to 200 there is alot of empty space also the 3 buttons on the bottom now have gaps it doesn't look good at all
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Yeah, I found that the resulting display can either look good or look really wrong. It really depends on if the app/widget was developed with absolute or relative display sizes specified.

Some apps clearly have some sizes hardcoded absolutely while other elements are relative. Looks really ugly; text not lining up with the graphical part underneath, etc. I decided to go back to stock 240.
 
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as you can see, Beautiful widgets is scaled to the left some, LauncherPro icons are smaller. This is set to 200.
 
I used this for about an hour before I realized it was really messing up the display of some apps and games.

Some games have poor support for the Evo's screen as it is, and this just made things worse.
 
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